Searches are kept in local storage and the five that best fit what is in
the box are offered under it: the ones it starts, then the ones it starts
a word of, then the ones it appears in anywhere, most recently searched
first. Walk them with the arrows, take one with enter or a tap, dismiss
with escape. The part that matched is picked out, and rows are built from
text nodes -- these strings are the reader's own and they are going back
on screen.
The box searches as you type, so there is no submit to record and storing
every pause would fill the list with the way to a query rather than the
query: a new entry swallows the ones it grew out of ("hot", "hote",
"hotel" leaves "hotel"), and going back to something shorter adds
nothing. Enter records straight away, since that is a reader saying they
meant it.
That turned up a bug the suggestions would have run into constantly: a
search started while the box's own last search was still out was dropped
-- loadVideos saw a load running and returned -- leaving the grid on the
previous query. Changing the result set now stops the load that is
running before starting the next one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MPZFnNdHbPGDTqQUNiE4ZN
Layered progressive polish on the warm classic + brass theme:
- Card entrance animation on first mount (virtualizer-aware)
- Cursor-tracking brass spotlight border on cards
- Thumbnail skeleton shimmer until the poster paints
- Hover video preview after a short dwell (only when formats resolved)
- View Transition + blurred-poster ambient backdrop on player open
- Favorite heart pop + expanding ring on add
- ⌘K command palette (search, theme, density, reels, source/channel)
- Scroll-progress bar + back-to-top FAB
- Grid density toggle (comfortable/compact)
- Reels HUD: serif title, brass scrubber, muted-state pulse
All new motion respects prefers-reduced-motion; no JS/HTML structure
changes to the core grid/feed. New glue lives in frontend/js/enhance.js.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
